Fig. 2 - Country of birth of registered stateless people in NL Indonesia Netherlands All others (48 nationalities) Source: CBS, situation 1 January 2010 Fig. 3 - Registered stateless people born in the Netherlands - father's country of birth (N> 20) 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 Source: CBS, situation 1 January 2010. “N > 20” indicates that data is only included where it concerns at least 20 individuals. 54. Clearly, the vast majority of stateless persons born in the Netherlands are of Indonesian origins. These stateless persons born in Indonesia and of Indonesian descent may at least in part be the Moluccans and their children referred to in section 3.1 above. Where Van Oers et al. estimated this group to consist of approximately 1,000 individuals, according to these figures it would seem that this figure is lower. Of all registered stateless people in the Netherlands, a group of 260 persons was born in Indonesia, whereas another 494 persons were born in the Netherlands but to an Indonesian father. Taken together, the group of people of Indonesian origins comprises 754 individuals. The fact that these presumed Moluccans are registered in the GBA as stateless persons is consistent with the fact that – though for all intents and purposes treated as such – they are not 24 Mapping statelessness

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